On 23 August 1841 Chopin wrote to the Viennese publisher Mechetti: “I currently have a manuscript available for you. It is a kind of fantasia in the form of a polonaise that I would call Polonaise”. Chopin’s uncertainty about the title is only too understandable. The work begins as a proud polonaise. Then a passage bursts in during which an octave a is relentlessly played more than thirty times. This almost modern sounding passage leads into a mazurka that seems to come from a different, enraptured world. We are now publishing this “kind of fantasia”, previously only available in our edition of all the polonaises (HN 217), in a revised single edition.

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Polonaises are among the earliest extant works by Frédéric Chopin (1810–49). Throughout his creative life he returned time and again to this genre that was so associated with his native country. This continued until 1846, when with his Polonaise-Fantaisie op. 61 he published a late, major work in the genre. Chopin’s earliest polonaises from 1817 can still largely be … 계속

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Frédéric Chopin

Pianist and composer. His work is concentrated around piano music that enjoys extraordinary popularity and has become an integral part of the concert repertoire. His music influenced subsequent generations in France (Franck, Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Debussy) as well as Smetana, Dvořák, Balakirev, Grieg, Albéniz.

1810

Born in Żelazowa Wola near Warsaw on March 1. First compositions at age seven, his first public performance at eight.

1822

Private instruction in composition.

1825

Rondo in C minor, Op. 1, his first published work.

1826–29

Studies at the Institute of Music in Warsaw.

1829

“Fantaisie sur des airs nationaux polonaise” in A major, Op. 13; Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 8. Travels to Vienna, where he gives two concerts of his compositions and improvisations.

1829–33 and 1835–37

Etudes, Opp. 10 and 25 -- a new type of virtuosic etude that also makes aesthetic demands.

1830

Premieres in Warsaw of his two piano concerti, Op. 21 in F minor and Op. 11 in E minor.

1831

Unable to return to Warsaw due to the Polish uprising, he goes to Paris, where he will remain until the end of his life.